Phrase Hound found 35 phrases and 23 compound words that contain telegraph. The most common are listed below. Open telegraph in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 35
- telegraph postA pole, usually wooden, that carries telephone lines above a street.
- engine order telegraphA device used by the pilot in the bridge to communicate the desired speed of the engines to the people manning the engine room.
- Telegraph HillA placename.
- Telegraph PointA locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- bush telegraphA system used by undeveloped societies in remote regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds, word-of-mouth relay, or smoke signals.
- telegraph codeA character encoding used to transmit information through telegraphy machines.
- telegraph lineA wire strung between two locations allowing telegraphic communication between them.
- telegraph officeAn office or institution providing telegraphic services, a place from which one could send a telegram (a historical kind of electronic message).
- telegraph boyA young male employed to notify people about incoming telegraphic messages.
- telegraph operatorSynonym of telegraphist and telegrapher.
- telegraph poleA telegraph post
- telegraph stampA stamp intended solely for the prepayment of telegraph fees.
- telegraph wireSynonym of telegraph line: A wire strung between two locations allowing telegraphic communication between them.
- wireless telegraphA telegraph sent by wireless telegraphy
- needle telegraphA telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position.
- printing telegraphSynonym of teletype: A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.
- telegraph boysplural of telegraph boy: A young male employed to notify people about incoming telegraphic messages.
- telegraph operatorsplural of telegraph operator.
- telegraph plantCodariocalyx motorius, a tropical Asian shrub, one of the few plants capable of rapid movement.
- telegraph postsplural of telegraph post: A pole, usually wooden, that carries telephone lines above a street.
- telegraph polesplural of telegraph pole: A telegraph post
- jungle telegraphA system used by primitive cultures in remote tropical regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds or a relay of runners.
- moccasin telegraphAn informal communication network among the native peoples in North America.
- mukluk telegraphThe spread of information and gossip by word of mouth in rural Alaska.
- telegraph-likeHaving the characteristics of a telegraph.
Compound words 23
- telegraphyAny process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a code, especially by means of electrified wires or radio waves using Morse code.
- telegrapheseThe terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this.
- TorygraphThe Telegraph newspaper.
- autotelegraphSynonym of telautograph: An analogue precursor to the fax machine, transmitting electrical impulses recorded by potentiometers to servomechanisms attached to a pen at the receiving station, thus reproducing a drawing or signature made by …
- pantelegraphAn early kind of fax machine using telegraph lines to transmit small drawings, signatures, etc.
- pretelegraphBefore the invention or spread of the telegraph.
- retelegraphTo telegraph again.
- telegraphableAble to be telegraphed.
- telegraphlikeAlternative form of telegraph-like: Having the characteristics of a telegraph.
- telegraphoscopeAn instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, relay …